Rate My Professor Ruben Medina

Medina's research and teaching center on Mexican and US Latinx literature and culture, continental connections, film studies, Neo-avant-garde movements, and Mexican migration to the United States. He has authored scholarly monographs such as Autor, autoridad y autorización: Escritura y poética de Octavio Paz (Colegio de México, 1999) and Genealogías del presente y del pasado: Literatura y cine meXicanos (Lima-Berkeley, 2010). His poetry collections include Báilame este viento, Mariana (1980), Amor de Lejos … Fools’ Love (1986), and Aquel Quetzalcoatl se fue pal’ norte (2018). Medina has edited key anthologies on Infrarealism, including Perros habitados por las voces del desierto: poesía infrarrealista entre dos siglos (multiple editions from Editorial Aldvs, 2014; Fondo Editorial Cultura Peruana, 2015; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León / Ediciones Matadero, 2016; LOM Ediciones, 2018). He co-edited a special issue on the Infrarrealistas for Chicago Review (2017) and produced translations such as Memorias de una beatnik by Diana Di Prima (Matadero-UNAM, 2020) and Una tribu de salvajes improvisando a las puertas del infierno with John Burns (Aldvs, 2012). Recent works include The Science of Sadness / La ciencia de la tristeza, edited and translated with Lázaro B. Medina (Matadero and Ediciones norteadas, 2023). Medina received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (1981) and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2021).